I did not vote for Mr. Obama but he is our (my) President and when these animals who voted for him turn on him – it will be the rest of us who defend our President from the smears….
And they (the folks I refer to above) they are vicious look at what they can do an example: G. Bush.
So when you see white people jumping up in praise (no at this time) just keep in mind these are really the ignorant… and in a few years they will be the first to turn…..
My Opinion……..

Al

[Reprinted from The Daily Reckoning; 2008-November-17]
O! BAMA! THE WORLD TURNS ITS WEARY EYES TO YOU…
By Bill Bonner

[Bill Bonner is the founder and editor of The Daily Reckoning. He is also the author, with Addison Wiggin, of the national best sellers Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis. Bill's latest book is entitled, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics, written with co-author Lila Rajiva.]

Mr. Obama became the president-elect of all the Americans last week. No man’s coffee tasted better on Wednesday morning than it did on Tuesday…no woman’s perfume smelled sweeter. But all over the world, people felt better about themselves, as if the human race had achieved something important.

At least a McCain victory would have caused the press to hold its tongue. Instead, commentators drew all the wrong conclusions and made fools of themselves. Some thought it meant America’s redemption from the sin of slave trade. Others saw a historic transformation that they couldn’t put in words and shouldn’t have tried.

“They did it. They really did it,” wrote the Guardian. “… [T]he American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic choice for change…” It’s the “End of the National Nightmare,” said TIME magazine.

Amid the effervescence came the French. Obama’s victory “arouses a wild yet reasonable hope,” claimed Bernard-Henri Levi in the Financial Times. Mr. Obama’s election will affect us in “at least three concrete ways,” he continued… a decisive turning point in dealing with the ‘racial question’ in the US… hope for an America that began doubting its “famous mission”… and with Obama representing the USA, “anti-Americanism… will have a harder time surviving and it will be forced to revisit its sales pitch.”

Nobody knows what America’s “famous mission” is – certainly not the Americans themselves. And if those are his ‘concrete’ ways, we’re glad Mr. Levi is not building bridges. There was nothing concrete about the hopes Mr. Obama’s victory arouse. Just the contrary…they are all in the ether.

They shouldn’t let French philosophers comment on American politics; they take the whole thing far too seriously. Besides, you never know what they are talking about anyway. But Le Monde saw it clearer. Not only was the paper happy to see the United States finally rinse the stain of racism out of the Stars and Stripes, it was glad to see Americans give free market capitalism the flush too.

Obama will be “reviving the role of regulation in the U.S.; [devising] tax policies to smooth out increasingly wide socio-economic divides; planning a health-care system appropriate to the country’s wealth,” said the paper. In other words, he will be putting in a system of state-directed capitalism, just like they have in France.

None of the commentators we read really understood Obama’s triumph. They saw it in a yearning for truth and a stretch for progress. It was nothing of the sort. The last thing voters want is the truth; they will reject it if it is put in front of them. Instead, what they want is diversion from the real world. What they hope to get from their leaders is a kind of entertainment…in short, a fantasy. Something to cheer them up when they are down. Or something to give them a fright when they are up.

You’ll recall from last week, the last period of Great Calamity – 1914-1945, with its wars, epidemics, Dust Bowls, hyperinflation, Great Depression, mass murders, bankruptcy and revolutions. It was in the middle of this period that Americans elected Franklin Roosevelt, who told them they had “nothing to fear but fear itself.” It was all in their heads! It was a whopper, but it was the whopper they wanted to hear.

And then, on right side of the Atlantic, Britain chose Winston Churchill as prime minister, in May 1940. Churchill crossed his fingers and put his hand behind his back immediately, claiming that Britain was not fighting to save its overseas empire, but to “save the whole world.” He promptly kicked out any official who was “exercising a disturbing or depressing influence,” that is, any who dared to tell the truth about Britain’s disastrous military situation.

Just weeks later – in France, after suffering the most humiliating defeat in their history, the French recalled an old man to power, Philippe Petain. The hero of Verdun made the French feel that they had just regained their national glory, not just lost it. But at the time, France’s fantasy seemed on more solid ground than Britain’s…which just goes to show how unreliable history can be. Sometime make-believe becomes real; usually, it doesn’t. Britain got the backing of the Roosevelt administration – which had promised voters to keep America out of the war – and beat the huns; Churchill died a hero. Petain died in disgrace.

Today, in the U.S.A., the Bush Administration has worked hard to make people fearful – with its torture chambers and preposterous “threat levels.” But the terrorists wouldn’t cooperate; they failed to blow up even a trash truck. Alas, now the mob sweats – and for good reason. People are afraid of losing their houses, their jobs, and their retirements. Losses in equities worldwide top $25 trillion. In U.S. housing alone, some $4 trillion has disappeared. That’s why Obama won; it has nothing to do with national redemption or Sarah Palin. When the world was safe and plush…the mob wanted to feel the frisson of danger. What the public wants now is safety: a movie with a happy ending, not a horror flick. Obama appeared the calmer, more intelligent, candidate. Voters could imagine him as the “black Roosevelt” giving soothing fireside chats and telling the lies they most wanted to hear.

And so, in the national narrative, one cockamamie bamboozle takes the place of the one that went before. Americans were supposed to be fearful; now they are supposed to be confident. They were supposed to be racists; now they are supposed to colorblind. They were supposed to defend free market capitalism to their last breath; now they turn to the state and beg it to protect their last dime.

His business-as-usual attitude toward his last remaining relative’s death (except for half siblings he barely acknowledges)shows a callousness that will translate to his obligation to We the People because we’re just a bunch of strangers he has no respect for.

Regarding Obama, they pretty much stuck to his oratory and voice and concluded that his rhythm and rising cadences had a hypnotic affect on his listeners. This substantiates another past NoQuarter article (or was it a comment) that cited a study about how Obama incorporates a variety of hypnosis techniques in his presentations.

a repetitive and wide-scale attack on reason, thought and judgment basically disarms the reader/viewer with the cognitive tools to discern fact from fiction.

once comprised, denial usually can only be broken when the reader/viewer is confronted with a personal circumstance that forces him/her to come to terms with facts, and also the coping mechanisms in place to maintain that alternative reality.

i am relatively new to this site, so i apologize if you were being sardonic with your post. but, if you words were sincere, than it would appear that you are on the same trajectory as the president-elect.

i wish you peace.

It’s a grueling deal running for office. Nobody is going to be perfect.

I don’t think that’s all that important.

Neither were the RNC clothes for Palin.

That’s all silly stuff

He sounded very determined to deliver on key promises made in the campaign, which is OK. At least he is suggesting that he will have some integrity in his administration, and that not everything was Greek columns and BS.

We’ll see.

I think the one GOOD point about his election is that the country will give him an opportunity to perform. McCain would never have been granted such a period.

It’s unreasonable to not give a change in administration such a window.

One thing I didn’t like about Obama is that I never saw him as a real Democrat. The loading up of his staff with Clinton Dems signals to me, anyway, that he’s adopted the party.

Now, in my opinion, he has to ignore Pelosi and Reid, who I personally find far more dangerous than anyone. Good grief, I can’t stand them.

I’d much prefer what I’m seeing…..a good solid group of Clinton Dems running the White House.

And if he puts Hillary in as SoS?

Icing on the cake.

White Guilt Emancipation Declaration

We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt.

This freedom from White Guilt was duly earned by the election of Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, to be our president by a majority of white Americans based solely on the color of his skin.

Freedom is not free, and we trust that the price paid for this freedom from White Guilt is worth the sacrifice, since Obama is a socialist who does not share the values of average Americans and will use the office of the presidency to turn America into a failed socialist nation.

Granted this November 4, 2008 – the day Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the first black president and the first socialist president of the United States of America.